467199 - Missing-plugins infobar needs to show information on WHICH plugins are needed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, enhancement)

Description

[Aaron Lawrence]

When the "Install Missing Plugins" bar comes up, there is no information on what is required, and not button to find out. The only way to proceed is to click the alarming-sounding "Install" button.

It needs to say what is missing and what install will do; or perhaps Install should say "Look for plugin" if it's just going to display information first.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[nivtwig]

I can confirm it was not solved yet, 3 years later ...

Comment 3

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Bug 836415 has now removed the Plugin Finder Service (PFS) from Firefox. As a result, I'm closing all the remaining PFS bugs.

If you're getting this bugmail for an ancient PFS bug, the basic summary of the world today is:

* NPAPI plugins are a dying technology
* PFS was already restricted to assisting with only the 4 most common plugins
* Sites commonly provide their own UI for install a required plugin
* Mozilla is generally focusing on  improving the web platform so that proprietary plugins are not required.

(Note that "plugins" are a completely separate from "browser extensions", such at those found on addons.mozilla.org. The latter are not going anywhere, and are not impacted by the removal of PFS.)